History of the Graeco-Latin Fable, Vol. One: Introduction and from the Origins to the Hellenistic Age
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Adrados, Francisco RodrÃguez
Van Dijk, Gert-Jan
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1999
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Where should one begin with a tome like this? My desperate attempt to review it for BMCR took eleven full pages! Let me just say here that Adrados sweeps across a great swath of territory and attempts to employ a method that follows the data rather than a formula fashioned according to our current understanding of fable. There is a wealth of insight here. I find his arguments often not easy to follow or to agree with, but it is a delight to watch him working with what evidence we do have. There are, I believe, two or three more volumes, all as expensive as this one! The book seems to be selling for $375 on Amazon. Is it also available on GoogleBooks? Volume II now costs $425! Volume III $492! I notice that Helen Morales in The Classical Review is much more harsh with the book than I was. The book is sructured poorly; it is repetitive, rambling, and incoherent, all of which makes it difficult to extrapolate the worthy from the dross . . . . It is to be hoped that in the future Brill take better advice about which 'classic' texts are worth reissuing (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2002, p. 169).
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8240 (Access ID)